Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-06
CARRYING OUT TIE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE. LAW.

The nter.Stat commerce law that went
into effect yesterday makes it unlawful for
railway companies to make unjust or UNI
reasonable charges.
To give preferences or make discrimina-
tons by amy special rate, rebate, draw
back or other device"
To demand y greater gross charge for
short than q long haul of freight OF passen-
gers over the same line under substan-
TALLY similar circumstances.
To enter into pooling agreements with
competing lines.
To grant free passes to any persons but
railroad officers and employees.
Every company is required to make its
rates public and to adhere strictly TO them
while they remain in force.
In carrying out these provisions, Presi-
dent Garrett, of the b. q o. Railroad, has
sent ont the following order:
baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Office Of the President, Baltimore, April l,
l-S7.-ENecutiye Order No. l7.--ln order to
comply with the provisions of the Inter
State Commerce act, the following rules
with regard to interstate passes will
govern on and after April |: l. No inter
State passes will be issued, except: (a) To
officers and employees OF other railroad
companies. AL such passes must show
the name and character of employment of
the officer or empioye, and will he written
request OF President, Vice Presi-
dent, General Manager OF other
executive officer. h. To employees of
this company and the members of their
immediate families under existing rules.
,. Where passes are issued good only in
one State, no pass must be given to the
same person for travel in another State.
3. No passes must be issued reading and
one TOR more but the full name of each
person must appear. 4. No passes, either
State or Interstate, will be issued on ac-
count of traffic Reduced Rates The
half passenger fares and reduced freight
rates heretofore extended to employees, the
special arrangement for reduced fares and
freight rates and other concessions under
circular No. Z, and the reduced rates to
clergymen, will be continued As hereto
tore, under existing rules. Robert Gar
rett, President"
On the Baltimore aud Ohio the rates for
communication tickets will remain IN
changed. Round-trip excursion tickets
will be sold as heretofore by all the rail-
roads at their discretion, and the new law
will not interfere with the summer excur-
sion business. The object of the law is to
secure uniformity of treatment for the trav-
cling public Therefore the rates for excur-
sionS can be as cheap as the companies
care to make them, provided that each
excursionist pays the sum demanded. The
full tariff rates of travel have been re-
established by the Pennsylvania lines.
Their irst-claSs rate from Baltimore to
Chicago, which has for more than a year
been Sl3, has been advanced to S17 80 by
the fast express trains. The fares by the
limited expresses were never reduced.
The Baltimore and Ohio has been selling
SIS tickets from New York to Chicago, and
Sl3 from Baltimore and Washington. The
Pennsylvania did not meet this cut out Of
New York, but kept at the $50 rate, while
meeting the SIS cut at Baltimore. This
Discrimination would not work under the
new law. The Baltimore and Ohio will
advance its rates, too, but not up to the
Pennsylysnia's figures.
Says the Baltimore Sun: General
Freight Agent HaTriOtt, of the Baltimore